So I would have picked Darling-Hammond, but then again I would have picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for Attorney General, Bill Fletcher for commerce, James Thindwa for labor, Barbara Ransby for human services, Paul Krugman for treasury, and Amy Goodman for press secretary. So what do I know?

Obama would have picked them too if he thought he could get away with it. His wife for AG?

I say keep an eye on these subversive lefties but ignore them, don’t give them any publicity. Let them dig their own grave. And the more they’re associated with the Dem. Party maybe they’ll drag it into the grave with them.

Huffpo is trash and has been from day one. Maybe one or two Hot Air readers didn’t know that? I guess that’s the service being performed by this headline link.

That’s cool.

But I’m saying a quiet little prayer that someone at Hot Air doesn’t see Huffpo as having fallen from a position of respectability. This shame doesn’t signify a deterioration, or a loss, it is a lateral move, a pig rolling to a different location in the mud pit.

I hope that the decent people who do read HuffPo see this and stop. Arguing that Obama’s connections to Ayers are tenuous and irrelevant is one thing. Actually holding Ayers himself up and making him a writer for your blog is a whole new level of descent.

I hope that the decent people who do read HuffPo see this and stop. Arguing that Obama’s connections to Ayers are tenuous and irrelevant is one thing. Actually holding Ayers himself up and making him a writer for your blog is a whole new level of descent.

kc8ukw on January 2, 2009 at 9:15 PM

The upshot of all of this is that Bill Ayers is now “mainstream” and people like Sarah Palin are “hateful” for questioning Obama’s relationship to this pillar of the community.

This is the bizarro world we live in. I sometimes feel like I’ve mistakenly wandered into some alternative universe — like the one where Spock has a goatee and is evil. I’m in the alternate universe USA — were domestic terrorists are domestic terrorists respectfully interviewed by Good Morning America, and Peggy Noonan writes columns praising a socialist and denouncing a Reaganesque conservative.

If anybody knows what I must do to get back to the normal universe, please let me know.

This is the bizarro world we live in. I sometimes feel like I’ve mistakenly wandered into some alternative universe — like the one where Spock has a goatee and is evil. I’m in the alternate universe USA — were domestic terrorists are domestic terrorists respectfully interviewed by Good Morning America, and Peggy Noonan writes columns praising a socialist and denouncing a Reaganesque conservative.

And, ramrod, where the major city’s major newspaper (NYT) runs a self-serving article by the domestic terrorist, and refuses to run one in response by the FBI agent who was assigned to him.

Spock is evil and wearing a goatee, and we are in an alternate universe.

I have no problem accepting this sudden quirk of fate. I just keep asking, why? How come all the other citizens are asleep? What happened? Who turned them into pod people?

We want our students to be able to think for themselves, to make judgments based on evidence and argument, to develop minds of their own.

What a phony this guy is. If you want students to think for themselves quit revising history and other textbooks, and get rid of speech codes. How much more money can we possibly spend on the liberal education system that has been nothing but a failure from the word go?

These people continually want to “fix” education when the real solution is to get them as far away from the education system as possible.

Kids are kids and they don’t need more money or any more “new” systems … the need to exert effort and be responsible for their own grades.

Irony alert from an unrepentant Communist ideologue who not only reveres, but collaborates with Fidel and Chavez; is a member of the segment of society who bought the claims that Stalin’s Russia was “the land of milk and honey”; who claim the debate is over regarding global warming climate change, ad nauseum:

Much of what we call schooling forecloses or shuts down or walls off meaningful choice-making. Much of it is based on obedience and conformity, the hallmarks of every authoritarian regime. Much of it banishes the unpopular, squirms in the presence of the unorthodox, hides the unpleasant. There’s no space for skepticism, irreverence, or even doubt. While many of us long for teaching as something transcendent and powerful, we find ourselves too-often locked in situations that reduce teaching to a kind of glorified clerking, passing along a curriculum of received wisdom and predigested and often false bits of information. This is a recipe for disaster in the long run.

But hey, Billy, thanks for admitting that YOU pass along a curriculum of false bits of information (although “bits” far understates the extent of the falsehoods you disseminate).

I wonder about people here in Hot Air. Do you all realize that we are under the assault of Socialism and that the Republican party does not have the courage to stand for liberty any more? We have no party to counter with.

We stand on the precipice, if we allow this to go further we will all be under the grip of a tyranny that we will not be able to make a stand. The democratic party and its allies have mainstreamed the greatest internal threat we have ever known – socialism. Yet all the Republicans talk about is uniting and coming together.

The day comes when those who have chosen to embrace socialism-lite will regret not having the courage to have made a stand.